* 1201 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler and merchant ( d. 1274 )

1143 ), English chronicler, was sacristan of the church of Beverley in the first half of the twelfth century.

The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".

Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

According to the Primary Chronicle Rurik was one of the Rus, a Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, English and Gotlanders.

** Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler ( d. c. 1363 )

** John Hardyng, English chronicler ( b. 1378 )

* Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler ( b. 1075 )

** Geoffrey the Baker, English chronicler

* Symeon of Durham, English chronicler

* Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler ( approximate date ; d. 1259 )

** Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer ( b. 1498 )

** Robert Fabyan, English chronicler

** Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler ( b. 1274 )

* probable – Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler ( b. c. 1299 )

** John Hardyng, English chronicler ( d. 1465 )

* probable – Thomas Walsingham, English chronicler

* Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler ( approximate date ; d. 1347 )

* August 9 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler ( d. 1274 )

* Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler

* Matthew Paris, English chronicler

Contemporary English chronicler Walter of Guisborough recorded the English losses in the battle as 100 cavalry and 5, 000 infantry killed.

The eighth century monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede wrote a history of the English church called Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; the history only covers events up to 731, but as one of the major sources for Anglo-Saxon history it provides important background information for Offa's reign.

* 1504 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1575 )

* 1981 – Matthew Etherington, English footballer

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

* 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer

He befriended English poet Matthew Arnold and English philosopher Herbert Spencer as well as being in correspondence and acquaintance with most of the U. S. Presidents, statesmen, and notable writers.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

A Life of Gregory by the Vartabed Matthew was published in the Armenian language at Venice in 1749 and was translated into English by the Rev.

The tale of a witch hunter in the English Civil War, based on the historical Matthew Hopkins ( Vincent Price ), was more sadistic than supernatural.

* 1775 – Matthew Lewis, English novelist ( d. 1818 )

* 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer / diver ( d. 1883 )

* 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( d. 1721 )

* 1984 – Matthew Murphy, English singer and musician ( The Wombats )

* 1956 – Matthew Garber, English actor ( d. 1977 )

* 1774 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer ( d. 1814 )

* 1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer

* 1970 – Matthew Pinsent, English rower

* 1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer

* 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( b. 1664 )

* 1987 – Matthew Connolly, English footballer

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ( 2000 ), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Archbishop Matthew Parker saw the Conquest as having corrupted a purer English Church, which Parker attempted to restore.

* Matthew Lewis, English novelist and playwright

* July 28 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist ( b. 1853 )